Oh, I see. My fault. I misunderstood the diagrams and formulas. MaxRange really means only that: Max Range ;-) Larger Ships will not be detected at larger distances... .

According to the calculations it would be possible to detect larger ships than your actual sensor size - but at a greater distance than your sensor size gives you. Or has that been changed and the calculations given in the forum are just old... ?!?

Now to sensors... . You have to design different active sensors for different target sizes. So far so "easy". What I cannot find a reason for is the limitation of small sensor resolutions to not be able to see  larger ships. Don't get me wrong, it is ok as it is, but I can't find out how the internal calculations are made.

Example: An active sensor for 100 HS has a detection range of 10 mkm. If a ship of size 80 HS would fly around I would be able to see it at only 6.4 mkm. Or a ship of size 120 HS I would be able to see at 14.4 mkm.
But an active sensor for 1 HS with a range of 1 mkm would, according to the upper formula, be able to detect a 50 HS ship at 2.500 mkm - which ingame it does not. So how does the game engine determines the upper range detection limit of an active sensor? Are there different formulas for different detection sizes? If so, where can I find them?

Ok I have a little time on my hand.

1. I don't think that you can create a crew less class, even if you create silly design with total of 0 crew requirement it still say 1.
2. what is your Deployment Time and what type of Armor you have?


Deployment Time time effect how much "life support" you'll need per crew member. The formula is:
HS allocated to Crew =  [Crew Breth * CubeRoot(Deployment Time) / 50 ] Rounded up to nearest multiplier of 0.2 (size of tiny quarter)

Which should be equal to Accom_HS_avail. Note, there are couple of special cases for any ship with Deployment time of less than 0.5 or 0.1 month. This is covered in detail in the 6.0 version changelog.

Thanks for the formula. I just started with the basic modules to try to figure out the calculations; didn't want to create a crewless ship.

For example: If I start with an empty ship (0.2 conventional armor and 1 fighter crew quarter) the total wheight of the ship is 12t, 1 Crewmember, 3 spare barth. So far so good. Now, if I add lets say a bridge which, according to the list adds 50t of wheight (or 1 HS) and has a demand of 5 Crew, the wheight goes up to 92t (due to armor increase to 0.9) but the Crew count is still 1 and three spare barth. Am I misinterpreting the "demand list" for the bridge?!?

Ok I have a little time on my hand.

1. I don't think that you can create a crew less class, even if you create silly design with total of 0 crew requirement it still say 1.
2. what is your Deployment Time and what type of Armor you have?


Deployment Time time effect how much "life support" you'll need per crew member. The formula is:
HS allocated to Crew =  [Crew Breth * CubeRoot(Deployment Time) / 50 ] Rounded up to nearest multiplier of 0.2 (size of tiny quarter)

Which should be equal to Accom_HS_avail. Note, there are couple of special cases for any ship with Deployment time of less than 0.5 or 0.1 month. This is covered in detail in the 6.0 version changelog.


As for armor, its:
Armor_HS = Armor_Surface_Area / 4 / Armor_Tech_ratio // do per layer.
When Armor_Surface_Area is calculated from total ship component size converted volume to surface.


EDIT:
On an unlrelated note, can someone please post a screenshot of Class Design window, from v7.1  in full height.

Designs under 500 tons class themselves as fighters so will have reduced crew requirements.

Oh, crew calculations for fighters (and FACs also, I presume) are different. Didn't know that... .

You know, I wonder if there's an app to do these calculations. Perhaps it'd integrate the Tech Designer as well? Would the distribution of such an app require any licensing/legal nonsense? If such an app (or website) does exist, please point me to it, even if it's just a spreadsheet.

I was trying to create an Excel sheet for helping in ship designing; that is why I recognized these "odd" numbers... . But if such a thing already exists... or maybe Steve could very easily create it out of the aurora code itself... ;-)

Designs under 500 tons class themselves as fighters so will have reduced crew requirements.